As much as they try to tell us that the U.S. was created by religious & political freedom seekers, the 13 original colonies were fundamentally business enterprises, established by joint-stock companies to generate profit for investors and the Crown. Let’s talk sugarcane.

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Just imagine how we've been scammed in the name of infrastructure development for years. Chinese Railway Indian Railway Stations Stations

After living 15 years abroad I've learned many valuable lessons. This might be one of the most important 👇 Freedom means absolutely nothing if you don't have safety. Another senseless tragedy in the US with innocent students killed and injured. The United States is the only

Your society may keep us in these invisible zones of death, but we will not be locked away. May this turbulence spill into your world, too. We are political animals who demand to be heard. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @PolAnimalClass

my parents fell for these cheap, big, 150 year-old houses a few times when i was a kid and they promptly had to sell because the heating bill was 2.5x the mortgage

it’s good to know that no matter how cynical you are about how petty, incompetent, and callous America is, the country always finds new and even more heinous ways to confirm it. it’s impossible to judge any American institution too harshly, they deserve all that and more

Probably by making tangible changes to the situation that produced the initial problem, instead of making vague noises acknowledging the existing of the problem followed by a decade long tantrum when someone proposes change the circumstances that led to it.

So if ‘Military Grade Drones’ operating in busy flight path to Dublin Airport - Why did @FineGael Minister (part time) Defence not warn relevant aviation authorities? Why were thousands of Aer Lingus, Ryanair British Airways etc passengers recklessly exposed to risk of collision?

1845-1852, Ireland. The Great Famine kills over one million people. This is taught as unavoidable crop failure. Except: During the famine, Ireland was a net exporter of food. While Irish peasants died eating rotten potatoes, Irish farms shipped cattle, pigs, butter, and eggs to

Albanese is the true person of the year for 2025. The most courageous human on this earth. Humanity is indebted to her.

A professor from Nanjing on why the Nanjing Massacre can never be forgiven: "What we remember is not hatred, but the absence of civilization — an absence that shows us how we must safeguard peace, protect life, and uphold justice… As long as civilization survives, we can neither

The closer you get, the darker it gets

John Pilger (1939-2023): What right do you have to do what you do in other countries? Former CIA Latin America Chief Duane Clarridge: National security interests Pilger: The people you do it to have no say Clarridge: Well that’s just tough This is how Washington views

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Here's a doozy of a video I'd never seen. Hiatorian: "You say you're against the globalist elite. It's not very convincing." Tucker: "GO F**K YOURSELF"

At least two of them Irishmen, thrust from Irish-speaking rural west of Ireland - where the highest building they might have seen was a parish church - to the hazardous coalface of capitalism.

Good job they got rid of Assad to usher in ISIS 👍

Coincidentally, NYT reports on a 1965 CIA operation to place a nuclear-powered listening device in the Himalayas. (To spy on PRC's missile and nuclear weapons programs.) The plutonium-powered device was lost and its whereabouts are unknown to this day. NYT: Indian lawmakers

‘Whites are becoming a tiny minority.’ Ok, first off, that’s not true domestically anywhere, but globally the white population is decreasing as a % — and here’s why. First up: the countries with the highest birthrates are overwhelmingly those Western imperialism has